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Mitch Horowitz discusses human decline, spiritual optimism, and the challenges faced by paranormal researchers with Jason Louv.

Mitch Horowitz returns to Ultraculture for a conversation with Jason Louv about his theory of human decline, the limits of spiritual optimism, and the resistance faced by paranormal researchers. They discuss practical esoteric methods, astrology and ghosts, Mitch's criticism of ideological skepticism, the state of parapsychology, Wikipedia's treatment of anomalous research, Blavatsky's influence on Gandhi, and the self-development programs behind political and spiritual figures. Start Jason's free 15-minute Why Magick course. Five lessons, free account required, no card: https://magick.me/p/why-magick?utm_source=ultraculture&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=episode-239-mitch-horowitz&utm_content=show-notes Topics: Human decline and spiritual optimism | Practices Mitch returns to | Astrology, ghosts, and evidence | Skeptical cognitive bias | Parapsychology and institutional resistance | Theosophy, Gandhi, and historical memory | Lenin and self-development Transcript: https://audio.magick.me/ep_239.vtt

People in this episode

Host: Jason Louv

Guest: Mitch Horowitz

Topics covered

• Human decline and spiritual optimism
• Practices Mitch returns to
• Astrology, ghosts, and evidence
• Skeptical cognitive bias
• Parapsychology and institutional resistance
• Theosophy, Gandhi, and historical memory
• Lenin and self-development

Keywords

• human decline
• spiritual optimism
• parapsychology
• astrology
• ghosts
• skeptical cognitive bias
• Theosophy
• Gandhi
• self-development

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Wikipedia

Books & works: Theosophy, astrology, ghosts, parapsychology, human decline, spiritual optimism

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